Exploring Real-Time Market Data Delivery with DoubleZero Edge feat. Ben Marx

In this episode of DevNTell, Narb interviews Ben Marx, the Head of Engineering at Malbec Labs, the core contributors to DoubleZero. Ben discusses DoubleZero Edge, a high-performance, decentralized network designed to deliver real-time market data to decentralized applications with low latency. He shares his extensive background in tech, specifically with the Elixir programming language, and explains how principles from Elixir and Erlang—such as fault tolerance and highly distributed systems—are applied to DoubleZero. Ben provides a high-level overview of DoubleZero Edge, emphasizing its goal to democratize private networks used by big tech and high-frequency trading firms. He explains the incentive structure for network contributors, using game theory concepts like Shapley values to ensure fair reward distribution. The episode also features a demonstration of the DoubleZero data dashboard, showcasing network performance, transparency, and its competitive edge over the public internet.